How medical errors affect physicians emotionally

Errors are all too frequent in medicine. The 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System estimated that as many as 98,000 deaths occur in U.S. hospitals each year as a result of iatrogenic error or injury. The IOM report strongly suggested that physicians recognize, prevent, and properly disclose clinical errors.

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